Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-25

for twenty-odd years with = few altera-
tons made now and them, and yet this
is by far the happieet and most pros
porous country in all the world. But
l.. II. b. will reply that he means that
if our policy were carried out to the
absurd lengths he contemplates, the
United States would cease to DO so
prosperous. We oppose assertion TO
assertion, and say that il his policy
we're "carried out" every dollar OF
money would be driven from this coun-
try; desolation, destruction barbarism,
and starvation would follow; "ruin
and combustion succeed and not one
cent remain within our country's limits
wherowith to purchase even loaf OF
corn.broad.
=. Nov an thoult mouth, III rant as well as
thou"l h.fga,
For if i. II. BIS theory is "carried
ont" all custom.houses will be abol-
ishcd. All articles will come into this
country free Of duty. All the govern
ment revenues must then be derived
from direct taxation; because the taxes
on whiskey and manufactured tobacco
are so high here that but for protective
duties, Canada and Cuba and other
countries on our borders would furnish
all our whiskey and manufactured to-
bacco. In order TO raise three hun
dred millions in that way, it would be
necessary to tax the people of Virginia
at least three dollars on every hundred
dollars worth of property, Tor as we
said the other day, two dollars on every
hundred dollars to raise two hundred
millions.) Add the State and city and
county taxes, and every man would
have TO pay about five dollars on the
hundred, or his entire income. That
would render all property absolutely
yalueless. All men would become poor;
nay, paupers, for nobody would care to
hold or could hold property worth
nothing and yielding nothing. So
much for carrying out theories.
Our theory requires MS, as L. II. b. s
requires him, to buy from persons who
will do our work cheaper than we can
do it ourselves. We only add, Buy
from the american tailor, the A0,cri-
can shoemaker, &c.
l.. H. B. attempts to ridicule buying
ut "home, and resorts to the rGdpctiO
al GbSlTdum in order to make his
point but the truth was too strong for
him, and he had to close by admitting
that he knew exactly what we meant
when we spoke of buying at home for
he says;
81 am in .focOy Of buying COLIN
tdriiy AT HOME, bit not Jy cOmpuL-
sion, and nlV enmity to protection, to
dny protection, is because IL is cOmpul-
sorry"
He is in favor of buying AT HOME;
he knows what the words cat home"
mean and he stands upon our plat
form. Like FALsTAFF, he objects to
cOmpulsion. "lf reasons (raisins) were
plenty as blackberries FALsrAFF would
give none on compulsion" and so,
though buying at home be the best
policy-the real statesmanspolicy-
L. II. b. will never buy at home on
cOmpulsion.
Our theory does not require us to do
without coffee and tea because those
are not produced sat home"
but teaches us to buy whatever we need
from abroad that cannot be grown or
made at home to better advantage.
We have allowed l.. II. b. to write at
greater length than we have written
ourselves. We are not at all averse to
such controversies; but we know that
the Democrats of Virginia have no in
tention of dividing on the tariff ques-
ton, and we do not like to do aught that
would lead them so to divide. If L. II.
B. has come off victorious, he cannot
complain because we close the discus-
sion whilst he is in good feather. If
the contrary be the fact. he is not likely
10 come off any better by continuing
the controversy.